Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

As early as 1994, he had guessed that the Internet would be the next boom, and people would prefer to buy things online in the future. By creating Google, Sundar didn't only create a money-making search engine, but he also created easy access to compiled and comprehensive information that would've taken a massive time and effort to find.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). First, there was the Industrial Revolution, followed by the Age of Steam and Railways; Steel & Heavy Engineering; Oil, Autos & Mass Production; and now the Information and Communications Technology Revolution.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. As a result I got to see some deals and get involved with some deals and I made some investments with my own money.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” Also in the 80’s, the megafunds were created (at the time defined as $100 million plus); the LBO sector outperformed venture through financial engineering; asset gatherers, such as Blackstone, were created. This isn’t correct either. A good example is Symantec.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2019

between 1994 and 2008. Even the creators of Google spent two years at Stanford after launching their search engine. : A Hybrid Path to Entrepreneurship,” we can finally lay to rest all speculation surrounding this topic. Researchers Joseph Raffiee and Jie Feng studied more than 5,000 entrepreneurs in the U.S.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. So what will become of IT?

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

In CS147 one of the video we showed to the class was the Sun Starfire concept video that was produced in 1994. HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. The seeds of this were sown decades ago when I was TAing CS147: Introduction to HCI at Stanford with my Ph.D. advisor Prof.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

Recently, Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the iconic blitzscaling company that he has led since 1994 – nearly 27 years. A company has many different functional areas–sales, marketing, product, engineering, finance, operations, and so on. However, that default may change.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

In 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers convened with business people in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to discuss the technical and financial feasibility of space tourism, then still a hypothetical concept.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

JumpCloud , one of the fastest growing companies in Colorado, is looking for awesome Developers, QA engineers, DevOps admins, and Customer Success Engineers. Over the next year, they are planning to hire 50 people for the engineering team and about 70 across the entire company.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. It seems all Gates’ attention was focused on browsers, allowing Google to come along and become everyone’s search engine of choice.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Katrina has also proven herself in the recruiting field, having recruited Eric Colson from Netflix to run analytics and algorithms, Mike Smith from WalMart.com to run operations, and Jeff Barrett from Opower to build engineering. Likewise, she had recruited both Julie Bornstein from Sephora and Sukhinder Singh from Google as advisers.

eCommerce 62

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2017

I remember back in 1994 when a friend asked if I’d like to buy a domain name. Now, you can always pay for online advertising and search engine placement, but we will have a huge advantage over the competition because a high-quality, exact-match domain means we won’t have to pay to get as many clicks. It turned out to be a big mistake.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

You are the engine of our future, after all. This recession lasted until 1994. We are all rooting for you to do this. You are the employers of tomorrow. In the early 1990s, we were in a recession triggered by reduced defense spending at the end of the cold war, the 1990 oil price shock, and a savings and loan crisis.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. Everything).

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. So what will become of IT?

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. Everything).

Widget 60

Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 60

blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Although I know many brilliant software engineers who worked unexpected miracles with Web Services, implementation by the common corporate programmer was stodgy in every case I heard about. It took an idea that hardly worked on an Intranet - remote manipulation of tightly-specified objects - and tried to make it work on the Internet.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

From 1994-98, Kathy was responsible for Stanford’s Sponsored Projects Office. Prior to that, she spent 12 years at Stanford; worked at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical as a research scientist; administered a dialysis clinical trial at University of California; and taught chemistry and basic engineering courses.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? It follows that an "idea guy" who "just needs to hire a few engineers" probably isnt running a tech startup. Titles like SVP and EVP are silly at a startup, and a giveaway that theres been some serious shuffling or some really big egos are involved. Yeah me neither.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 6, 2010

He’s paid his dues: … an entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media …VP of Engineering at Sana Security… CEO of Popular Power … founder and general manager of Lucas Online, the internet subsidiary of Lucasfilm, Ltd. He is a graduate of Reed College.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 27, 2010

The backdrop again: In 1998 when Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine. At the time of Bezos' investment, there were a large number of very well-funded and far more successful search engines already on the market.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Were helping the second-largest city in the United States become a veritable tech center," Google says on its website, in trying to attract employees for sales and engineering positions. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Want 300 days of sun a year?"

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 9, 2015

Google’s Ngram viewer (a tool that charts the usage of words in printed sources from 1800–2008) shows the precipitous rise of the words “content creation” around 1993-1994. As companies started coming online and search engines became the de facto discovery tool for prospective customers, the battle for keyword relevance on SERPs grew.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Afro-Tech operates on a basis of permissionless innovation — we do not need pre-approval to be black and innovative in tech and as for me, I been doing advanced and epic Internet tech stuff since 1994 so I’m not exactly someone that is easily impressed by an “ex-Google engineer” like the rest of yall, just saying.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

The backdrop again: In 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine. At the time of Bezo’s investment, there were a large number of very well-funded and far more successful search engines already on the market.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

That same year, Fred Terman became Stanford’s dean of engineering, and he received four ONR research contracts for electronics and microwaves. And some of that is changing those organizational constructs that still have us back in 1994. But we’ve got to get out of 1994. We’ve got to break that pattern.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2012

In the world of online search engines, most people stop with the Big Three. For those who like to run off the beaten path or march to the beat of their own search engine, here are ten alternatives to consider the next time you need to find information online. Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search are indisputably the most widely used.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

In 1994, the smartest guys in the financial trading and academic world got together to start Long Term Capital. In addition, the culture, since it is one driven by engineers, can also be driven by a NIH or not invented here syndrome.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) I believe that picking up programming should be to acquaint yourself with the particular challenges of engineering. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding. Any investor who knew anything about books, didn’t invest. You’re not alone.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

The one cost engineers and product managers don’t consider – [link]. The one cost engineers and product managers don’t consider – [link]. Interesting perspective from Steve Jobs about his legacy (from 1994) – [link]. Here are 10 tips – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. Another one, one that actually never got used, but I still liked was EngineFarm … They are a web platform enabling users to find and create their own personalized google search engine.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

In their seminal 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies , Jim Collins and Jerry Poras coined the term BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) — an acronym that stands for “ B ig H airy A udacious G oal.” “Can you take me Higher? To a place where blind men see . Can you take me Higher? .

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The magazine’s “Central Banker Report Card,” which has been published annually since 1994, grades Central Bank governors of 30 key countries, and the ECB, according to an “A” to “F” scale for their performance and success in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2014

Justin has been working online since 1994, he is currently working on launching the Systemadik LMS (Local Marketing System) which is a custom WordPress SEO and content solution for local businesses. He is a Duct Tape Marketing Consultant and employs the DTM system to provide strategic support and leading marketing tools to his clients.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

These changes fall into 6 main buckets: 1) Product Awareness: From Gartner to the blogosphere In 1994-95 - the great age of traditional Enterprise software, the only way to learn about a software application was to read the ad-hoc Gartner report or various esoteric software reviews. Basic sales principle.

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